BCG VACCINE


Meaning of BCG VACCINE in English

noun Etymology: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (an attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli), from Albert Calmette died 1933 and Camille Guérin died 1961 French bacteriologists Date: 1927 a vaccine prepared from a living attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli and used to vaccinate human beings against tuberculosis

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